Eryngium
Admiration blooms
with prickly spines
and gentle hues
of soft purple shades
that bleed to green
as tiny flowers
stick out
their tongues
to show
admiration
and irreverence
can coexist
as one
Spirit Guides Tarot Reading
Card to represent the Spirit Guide with me through this reading.
Seven of Pentacles – This spirit guide has been with you for a very long time, and has been working to guide you into a state of slow and healthy growth with diligence and care. They seek to help you not just survive, but thrive, and work hard to guide you in that direction.
Something this Guide is currently helping me with.
Justice atop Ten of Wands – Learning how to avoid burnout and it’s consequences by helping to guide you into making better choices on how you expend your energy.
What my Guide wants me to know at this time.
Ten of Cups – You can be happy without having everything that you want by sharing what you have with others, and enjoying their company and support in your life. Lean into those that you support, as they are eager to support you as well.
How can I help get myself to this place/goal?
The World – Stay true to your beliefs and the person you want to become, as you stay open to the changes and new journeys that lie ahead. You’ve turned over a new leaf in your life by trying to treat yourself better, and you need to stay the course.
What is holding me back from reaching my goals?
Queen of Wands – Sometimes you can become a little bit too focused on supporting other’s dreams, and in the process you forget to foster your own. Although it is important to you to support those that you care about, make sure that you’re not overdoing it and neglecting yourself as a result.
How can I motivate myself to be more productive with my lesson?
The Devil – Seek out the pleasure in the goal, as well as in the journey to reach it. Your addictive tendencies will take care of the rest.
A way that this lesson will show up in my life in the near future.
Queen of Coins – You will once again be confronted with a need to support others and be that stability in their lives, and will need to make a choice about how you go about doing this so that it will not cause you overwhelm and lead to burnout.
DECK USED: THE PAINTED TAROT
Don’t Be Shy
Today’s meditation was skipped.
Today’s draw is the Page of Cups, which is traditionally a representation of a receptive omega energy, personality, or person in the area of one’s emotions, relationships, imagination, creativity, and intuition. This often translates into themes that have to do with exploring new creative endeavors, letting your imagination free to wander, and revisiting emotions and relationships for further exploration and consideration.
In this card, the brain in the cup corresponds to the pattern of markings on the top of the fish’s head as he winds around the cup’s stem and finds an eye peering out at him from the foliage.
Sometimes when we are so deep in our own pursuits we forget there are others around us… and sometimes we are far too aware. Today’s card is a reminder that we can’t know what others are thinking when they look at us. Don’t stifle your imagination and creativity just because you fear what others might think if they were to see you or are watching.
DECK USED: THE UNTAMED MYSTERY TAROT ILLUSION EDITION
OwlandBonesTarot’s #BothSidesOfTheTarot Prompt
Questions for September 14th thru 16th
What do you believe to be true?
Temperance – You believe that moderation really can work for you if you let it. You struggle a lot with instilling moderation in your life. In your interests and hobbies, in your work. In your physical demands and pain management. In so many areas, you push too hard and too fast. But you know there is another way and believe in it… even if you struggle to implement it in your life.
What may be false?
The Tower – That every change is going to be a huge ordeal or a catastrophe. It might feel that way, but it’s not true.
Finding Balance Between the Two – Le Communicant / Semaine Prochaine – Don’t keep your struggles to yourself. Instead, be open with others. Remember as well that a bit of procrastination can be one way to implement moderation, as long as it’s done in a healthy way.
Do this solo.
Eight of Staves Rx – Slowing down can absolutely be a solo endeavor.
Join forces for this.
Four of Cups – Just make sure that if you start to feel a downward tug on your emotions, that you reach out to others to help lift you back up.
Finding Balance Between the Two – Le Rêveur / Retard Interne – Self awareness is an important step in knowing when you can handle alone time… and when you can’t. If you have your head in the clouds, you may miss the internal warning signs that it’s time for a change.
What do you see as half-full?
The Judgement – You feel optimistic in the fact that you are on your right path spiritually and in your development into a better person. You feel that each day is a step on this journey and positive progress towards self-betterment.
What do you see as half-empty?
Nine of Staves Rx – It is nearly impossible for you to feel safe. Even as you work to tear down boundaries in order to connect more with others, new walls form due to feelings of vulnerability.
Finding Balance Between the Two – Événements Imprévus / Défis / Juillet – Keep in mind that your defense mechanisms are in place due to past events that have happened to you. Your responses to these events and vulnerability that you feel because of them are not unreasonable. It doesn’t make you a bad person to be cautious.
DECK USED: BROKEN MIRROR TAROT MARSEILLE EDITION AND MISSION DE VIE ORACLE W/ EXPANSION
#DiscordTarotholicsSep2022 Challenge Prompt
Philosophical Question: What is humanity’s biggest accomplishment?
Reading Summary: Nurturing strength (Queen of Pentacles) with the ability to listen with empathy (Page of Cups atop Queen of Cups Rx) and take what they hear to offer inspiration (Queen of Wands).
Take Away: In these cards, the biggest accomplishment of humanity is its growing and expanding respect for women, their strengths and their power that lives not in brute force or avid aggression, but in how they relate to others and bend the world to their will in the way that the wind can cause trees to bend without breaking.
DECK USED: THE UNTAMED MYSTERY TAROT ILLUSION EDITION
I said no to helping do a security check of the garage and underground tunnels that are a part of the building. They didn’t really need me and my hip was not going to be able to handle the flights of stairs required.
Gideon’s Challenge
The Wild One
There is a need
for time spent
with bare back
to forest floor
as pine needles
and twigs
poke at the skin
and springy moss
pillows the head
and leaves long
fallen and forgotten
find purchase
in tangled strands
to hitch a ride
all the way home
Photo © ZenStatePhotography
Weekly Creativity Prompt – The Dollhouse
Prompt Here: “Pull (at least) three cards, and use them to tell us a story about what it would be like to live in a dollhouse.”
“I love myself a good box!” The kitty says as the dollhouse is sat down in the little girls room. Black fur pacing back-and-forth to twine around human legs as she watches with interest as the two sides of the house split open to create a wealth of small boxes to explore. (The Devil)
As soon as the human leaves the room, up the kitty hops, onto the table to circle the big box with all the little boxes inside. Peering in the windows to see all that lies within, then circling around to looking through the cracked open side and she begins to sniff curiously. (The Hermit)
Soon, she’s exploring each room eagerly, and pushing the little bits of trinkets and furniture off to the side or knocking them out the fall to the floor out of her way, until there is a scattering of little furniture all over the floor and each of the rooms in the dollhouse is empty. (The Sun)
She then wiggles her way into one of the rooms, working her way in with twitches and tugs until she can scooch and scrunch and smoosh her way to fitting inside. If it fits she sits, after all, and she will make sure that she fits in each and every room. (The Magician)
This room first, though, she thinks. And once she’s in, she’s oh-so-very comfy, and so she decides to linger a while. Instead of moving on to continue exploring, maybe she’ll just take a nap and explore the other rooms later. (Temperance)
DECK USED: BLACK CAT TAROT
A Cushioned Landing
Today’s meditation was skipped.
Today’s draw is the Fool card, which is traditionally a representation of innocence, enthusiasm, newness and fresh starts, carefree outlooks, and spontaneity.
People often associate the Fool with being “foolish”, but sometimes it’s not about being foolish at all, but about seeing things from a new and fresh perspective and diving in to that perspective wholeheartedly.
Just as alcohol cushions a drunkard from injury in a fall, so too can optimistic enthusiasm cushion “The Fool” when he leaps before he looks.
Where in your life could use a bit more optimistic enthusiasm? Where do you need to look up and not listen to the naysayers, but instead try anyway… just to see what happens? In what endeavor could that optimistic enthusiasm cushion your own stumbles and falls? Today’s card is a reminder that sometimes when you pour on a bit of optimistic enthusiasm you can carry that sentiment right on past the failures and roadblocks, breezing by them without a care in the world.
DECK USED: CIRQUE DU TAROT
#DiscordTarotholicsSep2022 Challenge Prompt
Questions for September 13th
The Problem – The Tower and Resilience – It can be hard to remember in the middle of chaos and deconstruction that everything will sort itself out in the end, and to trust in our strength and resilience to get us through.
The Lesson to Learn – Death and Imagination – Allow yourself to be open to changes and receptive to what could develop in their wake. The possibilities are endless, so use your imagination.
Advice to Help You Through – The Empress atop Page of Cups, Wounds – Don’t allow your reaction to changes to end up causing you to become less caring and nurturing for yourself and your needs. Doing so will only create more wounds that will need to be healed further on in life, and hold you back from appreciating the boon that these changes hold for you.
DECK USED: TRIONFI TAROT AND TREE WHISPER ORACLE THE SECRET GARDEN
Mr Lionhart’s #TheSeptemberTarot Between Dusk & Dawn Prompt
Questions for September 13th thru 15th – NURTURE
What have I been putting off that could be good for me?
Wheel of Fortune – Confronting the unpredictability in your life and doing what you can to mitigate predictable problems that arise as things change and cycles shift. In other words, you need to start working on your holiday prep.
What is taking up my subconscious mind at the moment?
Eight of Wands – You are feeling rushed and spinning your wheels at the same time. Keep in mind that this can quickly lead to overwhelm if you’re not careful.
How is this affecting me?
The Empress Rx – You are so wrapped up in that discomfort that comes with spinning your wheels and not getting anywhere while pushing for progress, that you aren’t taking the time to take care of yourself as you should.
What {part of me} am I guided to lovingly heal or nurture?
The Fool – Your inner child and your ability to see the world through an innocent’s eyes needs a little TLC.
Where should I start?
The Hierophant – Tried and true methods that you know will work through not just your own explorations, but the practices of generations that came before you. Things like meditation, healthy eating, exercise, etc.
DECK USED: CIRQUE DU TAROT
I was honest with Gideon about my pain levels instead of trying to hide them from him.
Twisting the Leaf 